Automation Engineer

Novelis Bay Minette Manufacturing Facility • Bay Minette, AL

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.
The Novelis Bay Minette team is seeking an Automation Engineer to support and optimize the site's automation systems, with a focus on ASRS (Automated Storage and Retrieval System) and WMS (Warehouse Management System) technologies. This role will serve as a technical expert in automation integration, data systems, and Industry 4.0 initiatives, partnering with operations, reliability, and technology teams to improve safety, productivity, quality, and inventory management while driving continuous improvement across the manufacturing environment.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or Engineering or a four (4) year degree in a related technical field (STEM).
• 4 years of progressive experience in censoring databases and interface systems. The experience must be in implementation and support of systems integration (automation systems) and communication methods standardization (telegrams and middleware).
• Sensors, databases, PDI/PDOs structure and KPI dashboards elaboration.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Historians (preferably iba and/or OSISoft-PI)
• Experience in Warehouse Management Systems.

Responsibilities

• Recognize and prevent safety issues early in the project cycle to avoid prospective safety issues.
• Actively engage in broader regional or global EHS initiatives; participates in the development of standards for EHS initiatives, with regional or global impact.
• Partner with site, regional and global teams to ensure mechanisms, networks, or relationships are in place to collect project requirements and feedback; translates requirements and feedback to project team actions.
• Identify customer and/or operational problems to be addressed, propose solutions, leads work of project teams to solve the problem, ensuring alignment across geographies or operating areas, and report the findings
• Lead regular review meetings with collaborators on joint projects.
• Ensure project team meets assigned commitments, and negotiates major project timelines and work
• Manage the interpersonal dynamics in the project groups/teams in order to achieve a constructive outcome at individual, team and organizational levels
• Influence Site decision-making by preparing and presenting technical information on matters related to Automation Level 2 Systems.
• Possess high level knowledge of site automatic cranes applications, with a comprehensive understanding of the manufacturing areas and their interdependencies.
• Assess viability of technologies, processes or methods to make recommendations as to the best application for broadly implemented solutions
• Effectively present technical information to peers or business leaders and influence site and regional technical decisions.
• Generate and contribute on complex technical problems where use of experience and creativity are critical to selecting technical directions
• Support the introduction of Industry 4.0 within the molten metal and rolling manufacturing environment.
• Act as liaison between Shop Floor, Reliability and Global Technology groups.
• Innovate and develop new techniques, processes, and develop protocols and initiatives to share and implement. Enable effective utilization of data applied to upper-level systems (MES and Level 3 Supply Chain).
• Participate in multidisciplinary teams to tackle problems from multiple dimensions and drive them towards customer centric solutions.
• Systematically, analyze the business value and viability of ideas generated by self or project teams to arrive at solutions to routine manufacturing issues.
• Maintain a network of technical contacts within and outside of the organization.
• Facilitate translation of complex data interdependencies to the Automation teams, MES teams, data engineers, stablishing priorities in multidisciplinary groups.
• Compile results and prepare technical reports and documentation of outcomes to ensure knowledge capture.
• Identify need for training classes for technical and non-technical collaborators and assist with development of curriculum.
• Design, develop and implement knowledge transfer initiatives to make an effective utilization of both implicit and explicit knowhow in the organization
• Adhere to and support company quality, environmental, health & safety, and certification standards, including ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, IATF 16949:2016, and ASI Certifications, where applicable.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Company-paid life insurance and voluntary coverage options
• Competitive paid time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retirement and post-retirement health coverage options
• Employee assistance programs available 24/7
• Wellness, career development, and work-life support resources

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level